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Healthcare organizations have often been criticized for being slow to adapt to changes in the marketplace. A recent accelerator program spearheaded by Independence Blue Cross (IBC), Penn Medicine and DreamIt Ventures hopes to change that by backing 10 innovative healthcare startups. And while none of these startups are likely to revolutionize medicine, they do suggest that there are many entrepreneurs with promising solutions that may reduce the cost of care while maintaining its quality.
Health insurer Priority Health has announced it has contracted with Healthcare Blue Book to publish cost and quality information for more than 300 procedures by facility and physician for its insurance members in Michigan.
A recent study by a Harvard professor and her European colleagues has elicited a handful of insights about health exchanges similar to the ones that will be implemented in 2014 in the United States.
The bidding war to purchase Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. ended last week when its current owner, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) Health System in Denver, announced it plans to sell the hospital to another Catholic chain, Providence Health & Services, located in southern California.
According to the results of a study published Tuesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, disabled Medicare patients under age 65 who are unable to take their prescription medications due to cost concerns are more likely to visit the emergency department at least once during the course of a year.
The Healthy Artists project pulled together students, artists, politicians and the healthcare community to address the issue of lack of insurance in the U.S.
I'd like to read the articles in JAMA Internal Medicine about shared decision making, but am too cheap to pay for access. So I'll rely on the LA Times article on the topic to make a brief comment.
Price transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare, and experts are divided on how much value exposing prices has for consumers and how much impact it would have on the industry.
Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, while hospitals that do the best job of preventing cardiac arrest among their patients tend to be better at saving patients with cardiac arrest, according to new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
When President Barack Obama released his fiscal year 2014 budget proposal in April, John Lozier, executive director of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), became immediately concerned that not enough is being done at the federal level to resolve the on-going homelessness epidemic.